President Obamas re-election campaign on Tuesday touted the end of the military policy Dont Ask Dont Tell as one of the Obama administrations signature achievements.

The ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military officially ended on Tuesday, following a vote to repeal in December. President Obama, who ran on the pledge to repeal in 2008, called it an honor to sign the repeal into law in July, setting into motion a 60-day waiting period.

In an email, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina called it both a policy promise and a personal promise kept by Obama to the thousands of people who needed and deserved this change.

Obama on Tuesday praised the end of the policy, which was enacted in 1993 under then-President Bill Clinton, and several Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee hailed the date as historic.

As of today, patriotic Americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love, Obama said in a statement released by the White House early on Tuesday.

Obamas campaign began touting the repeal as a major accomplishment prior to the official repeal date with campaign merchandise for sale on the re-election website. The campaign released a web video this week that includes stories of members of the military celebrating the repeal.

It's a reminder that -- as broken as Washington is and as long as change can take -- people and organizations can do amazing things when they work together and never waver from the vision that unites them, Messina wrote.

You are right, but all illness and mental disorders are due to man’s fallen nature. That is a topic much too deep for this thread.

Just speaking in secular terms, homosexuality is an illness and those suffering from it should not be allowed to claim special rights for it, other than treatment. It should NOT be allowed to destroy one of our greatest traditions. Geo. Washington must be spinning in his grave.

This is a sad day, indeed.

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posted on 09/20/2011 10:34:36 AM PDT
by 13Sisters76
("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)

Right you are. Homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness until political correctness changed that scientific research in the 1970s. The same types of people who declassified homosexuals as abnormal are the ones pushing to declassify narcissistic personality disorder as a clinically diagnosable mental disorder. I hate when the assholes at the APA allow the political agenda of a few on the left to supersede scientific analysis and research.

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posted on 09/20/2011 10:48:14 AM PDT
by Prole
(Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)

16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16 - King James Version (KJV)

13 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

14 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

15 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

16 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

There are many other examples. Leviticus Ch. 18, which includes the oft quoted, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind," wraps up saying the long list of sexual prohibitions are of abominations:

26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.

29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.

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